La Maison Qui Rends Fou!

[pphaneuf]

Monday morning, I went to the Préfecture with azrhey (thank goodness!).

Lots of waiting, but that I expected. I didn't expect the person to be so stuck to the letter of the word as to not get the part where my visa says that "I don't have to have a work permit" doesn't meant that I can't have a work permit! azrhey ended up composing a letter to the Préfet saying that his esteemed colleagues at the Consulat de France à Montréal were a bunch of morons or something to that effect, and please let me have a work permit. Which I then had to transcribe nicely.

I managed to screw up signing my own name, too, so really, I'm quite thankful to azrhey for leaving as little as possible to me to do (screw up?).

What an adventure...

Comments

[azrhey.livejournal.com]

As I said, we have been living together for 9 months and not once I have had to take the garbage/recycling out.

As long as you keep it that way it will be my pleasure to keep facing the French bureaucracy for you.

[jenever.livejournal.com]

oh, the prefecture. joy of glorious joys. thankfully, my two stints at the sous-prefecture du havre were short and painless. all my documents were in order, i even got a "vous parlez très bien français, madamoiselle."

bureacracy at its finest, really. did you have to do a medical exam when you got here?

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

No, I had already a letter from a doctor saying I don't have the black plague, but they want me to have another one at some point, from their approved doctor.

But this is only if the Préfet considers my plight...

[jenever.livejournal.com]

Good luck. If you do need to go for a medical exam, it's fairly painless. They test your sight, height/weight, and they give you a lung x-ray. Sometimes the people who adminstor it are assholes but it's over fairly quickly.

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

Ah, yes. Bureaucracy. The true sign that a civilization has peaked and is headed downhill quite rapidly :-)

Hope you get your work permit soon.

Btw, did the plans for heading up North die completely? The last two months are a bit hazy in my memory but I've got this nagging feeling that something went wrong in my end :-/

[pphaneuf.livejournal.com]

I put those plans on the backburner for a bit, as I soon after got some notification that a number of people would be passing by Toulouse in February, so it kind of make it tricky. We're having a release at the end of March here, so that was kind of out, but I was about to think about that again.

I'd have to look (or, uh, have azrhey look) at the pricing of plane tickets, but I'd guess that maybe the end of April would be decent? What's your take on this?

I was meaning to see the Ungdomshuset, being a bit of a closet anarchist, but seems like I missed the boat on that one... Oh well, there's still Christiania, I suppose, but I hear that's going downhill as well?

[skjalm.livejournal.com]

Christiania doesn't seem to be going anywhere in the near future. But it does seem to have lost a lot of its atmosphere after Pusher Street was closed down. There used to be a lot of small "houses" that were all torn down, erm, a year or two ago.

As for the end of April I have some good news: I've still got 5 days of vacation that I have to spend before May 1st but no money to travel anywhere so I'd be delighted to take some time off to show you and azhrey around.